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The Provinces of Liberty
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the North American Federation, the Revolution never happened. General Washington surrendered outside Philadelphia in 1777, and Britain answered colonial grievance with reform instead of war. Two hundred fifty years later, the twenty-three provinces are counting down to Jubilee - parades, silver compasses, a nation congratulating itself on the peace it kept.
Amina Clarke keeps the truth instead. As Senior Assistant Keeper at the Federal Archive, she has spent eleven years cataloguing the founding documents of a country built on the world's best-remembered surrender - until a locked door behind the Settlement case, and a key left in a vanished colleague's umbrella, opens onto a Charter Room that was never supposed to exist.
What Amina finds there doesn't topple a government. It does something slower and harder to undo: it makes her responsible for what the record says, and what it leaves out - about the provinces that didn't stay loyal, the promises made at Albany, the people whose history became provenance instead of memory.
The Provinces of Liberty is a novel about institutions instead of revolutions - about archivists, translators, and civil servants as the last line between a nation's official story and its real one. Told across three parts and twenty-eight chapters in clean, exacting prose, it asks what a country owes the people whose history it keeps.
For readers drawn to alternate history that trades battles for paperwork and conscience.
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